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Chris Sugden - 25 Apr 2007 11:01 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to have a pane in my app that works just like the
finder? I've seen that you can bundle TextEdit-like features into your
program with ease. I know Finder is carbon, not cocoa, but is it
possible to do this with Finder as well?

Cheers,

Chris

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Gregory Weston - 25 Apr 2007 17:55 GMT

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to have a pane in my app that works just like the
> finder? I've seen that you can bundle TextEdit-like features into your
> program with ease. I know Finder is carbon, not cocoa, but is it
> possible to do this with Finder as well?

M. Uli Kusterer has something similar to the Finder icon view here:
<http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/sourcecode.htm>

List and column views are easily handled by stock classes.

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Chris Sugden - 26 Apr 2007 11:22 GMT

That's great. Could you elaborate a bit on this though?

> List and column views are easily handled by stock classes.

My cocoa programming experience is exactly nil, but I'm happy to put
in the time learning *if* what I want to do is actually possible.

To be more specific, I don't want to replicate a "Finder look" in my
app. I want to actually be able to browse directories, open files into
the primary pane, rename files, create new directories and so on. Am I
going to have to create all this functionality by hand? There's no
existing objects like for when you want a text editing pane?

Thanks,

Chris

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> List and column views are easily handled by stock classes.

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Gregory Weston - 26 Apr 2007 14:51 GMT

> That's great. Could you elaborate a bit on this though?
> > List and column views are easily handled by stock classes.

The NSOutlineView and NSBrowser classes are what you' be looking at for
those modes, respectively.

> My cocoa programming experience is exactly nil, but I'm happy to put
> in the time learning *if* what I want to do is actually possible.
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> going to have to create all this functionality by hand? There's no
> existing objects like for when you want a text editing pane?

There's no single thing you can drop in a window that will make that
window look/act like a Finder window. There's not a HUGE amount of code
for the functionality you've described, though, because the worst of it
is already wrapped up in classes that are available to you.

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Finder pane